FUJIYOSHIDA, Yamanashi Prefecture—The construction of a gate at the fifth station of Mount Fuji was completed on June 17, two weeks ahead of its use to stop crowds and unsafe climbing of Japan's ...

One way of easing the human impact on Mt. Fuji that the local city of Fuji-Yoshida has been advocating, without much traction, is for hikers to start not at the 5th Station, but from the very foot ...

Passang speaks five languages. He's spent the past 14 years working on Mt. Fuji, where he leads foreign climbers from the 5th station to the summit about 20 times a month during the summer.

Climbers on Mount Fuji wait to see the sunrise on the Kengamine peak, its highest, near the former Mount Fuji Weather Station, pictured at right, on July 24, 2024. (Mainichi/Koichiro Tezuka) In ...

Climbers on Mount Fuji wait to see the sunrise on the Kengamine peak, its highest, near the former Mount Fuji Weather Station, pictured at right, on July 24, 2024.

Mt. Fuji is divided into 10 stations, and there are four “5th stations” halfway up the mountain from where the four trails — the Yoshida, Fujinomiya, Subashiri, and Gotemba — start to the top.

Climbers camp out near a lodge at the eighth station of Mount Fuji late at night in August 2023 in this photo provided by the Mt. Fuji Yoshida Trail Huts Association.

Under the prefecture’s plan, the railway will run 25 to 28 kilometers along the Fuji Subaru Line between Mount Fuji’s base and its Fifth Station. Each LRT train will have a capacity of 120 ...

The manned weather station atop Mt. Fuji closed Thursday after 72 years of monitoring Japan's weather conditions, replaced by an automatic observation system.

It was exactly midnight, and I was halfway between the second and third aid station — 50 kilometers covered but still another 115 to complete in the Ultra-Trail Mt. Fuji, Asia’s most prominent ...